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This book makes a significant contribution towards understanding the new class structures of post-industrial societies, and the changing processes of social stratification and mobility.Drawing together comparative research on the dynamics of social stratification in a number of key western societies, the authors develop a framework for the analysis of post-industrial class formation. They demonstrate the central importance of the institutional bases of individual countries - welfare states, labour markets, and education systems - for understanding social stratification. They illustrate the significance of the relations between the welfare state and the household, and the critical interface between gender and class. Case studies of the USA, the UK, Canada, Germany, Norway and Sweden examine the differing application of these ideas in individual welfare states.Connecting issues of welfare, stratification and political economy, the book will be essential reading for lecturers and students in sociology, political science, social policy and related subjects.

`The evidence accumulated is valuable.... This collection is very useful for its comparative data on occupational mobility and because it refutes the proposition that there exists currently a large, homogeneous and permanently trapped new servant class in advanced capitalist societies' - International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

Gosta Esping-Andersen is Professor of Comparative Social Systems at the University of Trento. He is the author of Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism (1990) and Politics against Markets (1985), and the editor of Changing Classes (1993)
CONTRIBUTORS OUTSIDE WESTERN HEMISPHERE
Francis G Castles ANU Canberra
Roger Goodman University of Oxford
Ito Peng University of Oxford
Guy Standing ILO Geneva